Published in Crow’s Feet·Jul 22, 2022Member-onlyMid-Life Job Hunting Drama ContinuesEvery email makes me jump — I recently wrote about job hunting in mid-life (you can read it here). So many amazing comments and responses from you, dear readers, had me feeling less alone in the world. However, I also discovered that it is not just a mid-life issue. This is across the board: all ages…Psychology6 min readPsychology6 min read
Published in Crow’s Feet·Jun 30, 2022Member-onlyJob Hunting During A Mid-Life Crisis Is Making Me Feel BrokenIt’s not for the faint of heart. This time three years ago, my life was completely different. I lived in a five-bedroom detached house in one of the best postcode areas of my city. If I ever had to tell anyone my address, or where my kids went to school…Life6 min readLife6 min read
Jun 24, 2022Member-onlyWombs Are Heavy Physically, Emotionally and Mentally.And if you don’t understand this, you cannot make decisions that effect people who do. My phone pinged. My 24 year old daughter who lives in the States had sent a photo of breaking news and underneath had written, ‘Well then’ The US Supreme Court had struck down abortion rights…Feminism5 min readFeminism5 min read
Jun 3, 2022Member-onlyI’m Trying To Make A Decision But Feel FrozenTrauma is the iceberg within me Two and a half years ago my life went kaboom! Everything imploded. My marriage, my career, my home, my family. Nothing came out of that day in tact. It took another year from that day until I realised the full impact of what had…Life5 min readLife5 min read
Published in Heart Affairs·Updated May 25, 2022Member-only“I Apologize” VS “I’m Sorry”Does it make a difference? — I recently had an issue I wanted to bring up with the guy I’m seeing. He had done something during sex that I had specifically asked him not to do, on several occasions. Now I get that things happen in the moment, things get heated, and we were having a…Relationships4 min readRelationships4 min read
Published in I, Stepmother.·Updated Apr 11, 2022Member-onlyMy Step-Daughter Is Dating Her Step-Sister’s ExIs that ever ok? — I have a tricky situation going on. I have four daughters. Two are biological. Two are step-daughters whom I have raised full-time for the last twelve and half years. The middle two are only two weeks apart, so it has been like having twins. My biological daughter dated a boy…Feminism5 min readFeminism5 min read
Published in Heart Affairs·Updated Apr 7, 2022Member-onlyHow To Recover From Divorce — Some Small Steps To Help YouIt takes time, but there is life on the other side. — I will preface by saying I have been through two divorces. One after 13 years, we got married young and had two children. The second was after 10 years together and added two more stepchildren. The first was more a growing apart, the second was filled with betrayal and was…Divorce8 min readDivorce8 min read
Feb 5, 2022Member-onlyHave I Read War And Peace If I Listened To It On Audible, All 60 Hours And 15 Minutes Of It?Yes! I unabashedly declare I have and I defy anyone to tell me otherwise. I sat in my car, parked at the top of my garden path, and listened to the last three minutes of Leo Tolstoy’s epic War and Peace play out from the speakers. I had been walking…Writing6 min readWriting6 min read
Jan 11, 2022Member-onlyHow Do You Grieve For Someone That Has Cut You Off ?Are you still allowed to feel everything? I was washing my car. My daughter was coming in from the States for Christmas, and her flight from London to Scotland had been cancelled due to freezing fog. I told her that I would go inside and see if we could find…Life6 min readLife6 min read
Sep 24, 2021Member-onlyDo You Tell The New Girlfriend That He’s Cheating On Her?Or do you mind your own damn business? I have had my suspicions for a while now. I know the signs. I know him too well. Twelve years of living under the same roof as his lying ass. Hindsight has made me see things so clearly. The subtitles I missed…Addiction5 min readAddiction5 min read
